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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-48101 EUVD-2026-34849

GHSL-2026-117: 7-Zip UEFI Capsule uninitialized heap memory disclosure

Published Jun 5, 2026 · Updated Jun 5, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. Versions 9.21 through 26.00 contain an An uninitialized memory disclosure vulnerability in the UEFI capsule (.scap) parser in 7-Zip. The OpenCapsule function allocates a heap buffer of attacker-declared CapsuleImageSize (up to 1 GiB) without zero-initialization, then reads the file contents into it with ReadStream_FALSE whose return value is silently discarded. If the file is truncated, the unread tail of the buffer retains uninitialized heap memory, which is then exposed as extracted file content via GetStream. Version 26.0.1 fixes the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mcmilk 7-Zip >= 9.21, < 26.01 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 7zip 26.01+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 7zip No fix yet —
Debian 13 p7zip 16.02+transitional.1 —
Debian 12 7zip 22.01+really26.01+dfsg-0+deb12u1 —
Debian 12 p7zip 16.02+really26.01+dfsg-0+deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 7zip No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7zip No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 7zip No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS p7zip No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS p7zip No fix yet —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS p7zip No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS p7zip No fix yet —
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS p7zip No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS 7zip No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 7zip No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 7zip 26.01-150400.9.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2696-1
SLES 15 SP6 7zip 26.01-150400.9.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2696-1
SLES 15 SP5 7zip 26.01-150400.9.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2696-1
SLES 15 SP4 7zip 26.01-150400.9.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2696-1
Show 7 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 7zip 26.01-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22347-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 7zip 26.01-150400.9.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2696-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 7zip 26.01-150400.9.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2696-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 7zip 26.01-150400.9.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2696-1
SLES 16.0 7zip 26.01-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22347-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 7zip 26.01-150400.9.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2696-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 7zip 26.01-150400.9.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2696-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed 7zip 26.02-2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11502-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 7zip 26.01-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21038-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 7zip 26.01-r0 —

Advisories 5

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